Example sentences of "[verb] him from his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence , despite protests from the Diplomatic Corps , the Chinese government dismissed him from his office on 31 January 1927 . |
| 2 | A ‘ light from heaven ’ allegedly knocks him from his horse and ‘ a voice ’ , issuing from no perceptible source , demands of him : ‘ Saul , Saul , why are you persecuting me ? ’ |
| 3 | But it was Wang Sau-leyan who rose and helped him from his chair ; who walked with him , his arm about his shoulder , to the steps . |
| 4 | Anstey is the father of a pink cheeked vision of health and material well-being who tries to distract him from his writing by showing him her doll , a fashionably attired figure which intervenes in the space between them . |
| 5 | And half way through the second act , when Ptolemy accused Caesar of driving him from his palace and Caesar said , ‘ Go , my boy , I will not harm you ; but you will be safer away , among your friends , here you are in the lion 's mouth ’ , Stella imagined St Ives spoke more severely than usual . |
| 6 | Innocent " postulated " Mauger , i.e. using his plenitude of power , he personally nominated him as bishop , dispensing him from his impediment . |
| 7 | When you drove him from his Dream , it proved too much . |
| 8 | ‘ Come quick , ’ he cried , and tugging at Meredith 's arm he toppled him from his stool and ran him out of the door . |
| 9 | The activity seemed to rouse him from his stupor . |
| 10 | They lifted him from his chariot and placed him successively in three vats of water to quench his ardour . |
| 11 | Huy had grabbed him by the throat , lifted him from his seat , and slammed the back of his head against the wall with a force that cracked the plaster . |
| 12 | He enters me as fortress , I can only thank him from my battlements ; I am the pearl the knight must capture to win heaven and the drug that will detain him from his quest . |
| 13 | This followed Radio Galaxy 's announcement that the Chief of Police , Maj. Joseph Michel François , an author of the September coup [ see p. 38523 ] , had been arrested after refusing to obey an order dismissing him from his post . |
| 14 | When one day nobody could rouse him from his trailer , it was Lee Marvin who entered quietly and found a sombre , lonely , sad man . |
| 15 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 16 | A tug at his trouser leg awakened him from his reverie . |
| 17 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 18 | According to the Men 's Movement , second only to the father is the older male who will help teach a young man what it means to be a man and help remove him from his father 's influence . |
| 19 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 20 | When he came into her she stuck him like a pig and ripped him from his abdomen up to his breastbone . |
| 21 | CHINA 'S hardline vice-president Wang Zhen died yesterday , just days before a meeting of parliament that would have retired him from his post . |
| 22 | Franco released him from his embrace , tapped him on the chest and dropped his tone of ghastly jocularity . |
| 23 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |
| 24 | I remember him from his hearing tests — a quiet man . |
| 25 | It was the headmaster , calling him from his sitting-room window . |
| 26 | I 'd never endanger that , I 'd never try and separate him from his mother . ’ |
| 27 | " Wagner , as I now know him from his music , his poetry , his aesthetic , not least from that fortunate meeting with him , is the flesh-and-blood illustration of what Schopenhauer calls a genius . |
| 28 | For example , where a tenant covenanted to paint in the " last quarter of the said term " it was held that the exercise of a break-clause relieved him from his obligation ( Dickinson v St Aubyn [ 1944 ] KB 454 ) . |
| 29 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |
| 30 | The fox needed nothing more to start him from his kennel . |